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Religion Grade 7

Quarter 2/ WEEK 2
Jesus, Fully Human and Fully Divine

GRADE LEVEL STANDARD: The learner demonstrates understanding of the

person and mission of Jesus Christ continued in, by and for the Church in spirit and
truth, love and service.

CONTENT STANDARDS: LEARNING COMPETENCIES:

The learner demonstrates The learners:
understanding of Jesus’ humanity and
1. explain Jesus as model of
divinity gradually disclosed to people
during His early life first to His obedience
immediate family and later to others
2. examine ways on how to be
with whom He lived and served to.
obedient to God
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS: 3. listen contemplatively to God’s
The learner is able to: voice in prayer like Mary
• patterns one’s humanity to the
values that Jesus lived and died for
• live one’s life in total obedience
to God
• prepare one’s life for the
challenges that lie ahead
• make decisions in accordance
with God’s will and
• perform acts that manifest one’s
love for God.

VALUES INTEGRATION: Humility – is a value that enables someone to comply with

the will of an authority or an individual who is morally upright and whose power to
control is based on sound moral principles.

Performance Task: Goal – To understands clearly how Jesus is

human and divine
Slide Show Presentation Role – Invited speaker
Audience – to be catechists
Situation – You are a graduate in a

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prestigious Catholic school. A parish priest
invited you to give a simple yet clear
explanation of Jesus’ humanity and divinity
using stories in the Gospel to the incoming
catechist of the parish.
Product – To prepare a slideshow
presentation on the person of Jesus with two
natures using the stories in the Bible.
You will deliver your talk to them.
Standards –
4 – Outstanding 2 – Satisfactory

3 – Very Satisfactory 1 – Needs Improvement

4 – The voice is audible

The explanation is correct and at level of the listeners.
The slideshow presentation facilitates the discussion and is clear.
3 – There are times that the voice is not audible.
The explanation is correct and at level of the listeners.
The slideshow presentation facilitates the discussion and is clear
2 – There are times that the voice is not audible.
The explanation is correct but there are some which are not at level of the listeners
The slideshow presentation facilitates the discussion and is clear
1 – There are times that the voice is not audible.
The explanation is correct but there are some which are not at level of the listeners
The slideshow presentation is poor.

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LESSON 2: Jesus is Obedient to Mary and Joseph and Is Anointed by Father

Introduction
Jesus is Obedient to Mary and Joseph and Is Anointed by Father is discusses that
family, which is founded and given life by love, is a community of persons: of
husband and wife, of parents and children and of relatives. Its first task is to live
with fidelity the reality of communion in a constant effort to develop an authentic
community of persons.

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Specific Learning Objectives

1. To define obedience
2. To identify scriptural basis of the obedience of Jesus
3. To identify ways to be obedient to God
4. To identify prayers that is related to Mary
5. To recite fundamental prayers
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Key Understandings

• Although God-made-man, Jesus was willing to obey Joseph and Mary.

• The Holy Family is model which modern families can emulate
• Listening to God in prayer binds every member of the family.
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Essential Questions

If Jesus, a God, obeyed Joseph and Mary, how would you practice obedience toward your
parents and to the adults around you?
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Development
BODY

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Portraying Your Root

On the space provided, paste a picture of your father and mother. Below each picture,
write an adjective that fully describes them.

Answer the questions below.

1. Why did you describe your mother that way? Recall an experience with her that confirms
the description.

2. Why did you describe your father that way? Recall an experience with her that confirms the
description.

3. Are they worth obeying? Why?

As we go through the way toward growing up, God's decency carries us to a

"protected ground" which we call family. it is in the family that all people build up their
character. The qualities, for example, love, trust, kindness, empathy, correspondence,
and so on have been created in the family. Through our folks' assistance, abilities and
characters have been developed.

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DEEP LISTENING
Please watch meditatively
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTeRCVRd5s8
A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew

When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get
up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I
tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”

So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt,
where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had
said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.”

When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and
he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years
old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. Then
what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:

“A voice is heard in Ramah,

weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children
and refusing to be comforted,
because they are no more.”
The Gospel of the Lord…
Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ!

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REALIZING PARADISE
How do we describe Joseph, the legal father of Jesus?
Not one word of Joseph is recorded. The Sacred writing talks as it were of what
Joseph "did" : "by their natural products you should know them." Humble and fidelity to
Jesus Christ and His Favored Mother is the mark of Joseph. The covered up life of Joseph
empowers us to look for sacredness of life through the standard event of everyday life.
Joseph’s domestic virtues: industriousness, listening, patience, and sacrifice, detachment
from material possessions, purity of heart, and faithfulness to grace.

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What were the circumstances behind the marriage of Mary and Joseph?

Mary had been engaged to Joseph but, before they came to live together, she was found
to be pregnant.
Joseph as a righteous man, did not want to expose her to public disgrace, and instead
planned to send her away quietly. He was about to do this, when in a dream an angel told
him not to be hesitant to take Mary as his wife, for the child conceived in her was from the
Holy Spirit. He did as the Lord had directed him – he took her as his wife.
The parents of Jesus were both loyal and faithful to God who called them to cooperate in
the story of salvation.

Why were Joseph and Mary worth obeying?

Jesus must have proudly looked up to Joseph who cherished and protected Him as
his own son for some reasons. Joseph acted instantly and unquestioningly, in two very
mysterious and difficult situations. The first was to take Mary as his wife in spite of her
being pregnant, while still only betrothed to him, because she had conceived by the Holy
Spirit, and accept her child as his own son by giving him the name chosen by God
Himself. The second, he received again in dreams that enabled him to protect the child’s
life from danger. He trusted and followed this divine guidance fully, whether to take the
child, whose life was threatened by King Herod.

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Jesus obeyed Mary even when she did not fully understand her son.

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Please watch the video comprehensively.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG79-ZM0yrA

“Family prayer is so important, especially on the occasion

of significant family events, that parents should by word as by
example teach their children the prayers of the Church,
including the public prayers and the rosary” – Pope John Paul II

Discussions> Concept and Basic Skills> Developmental Activities.

Word/s to Remember:
Disgrace – shame, dishonor

Engagement
Truth to live
Complete the diagram with the appropriate answer

I obey my
parents
because…

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Words to be loved
We experience our concern and care for our parents in different ways. Below, you will be
asked to write a love letter to your parents. Express your gratitude to them for the many
good things they have done to you. After writing the letter, ask your parents to read it and
let them affix their signature.

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>Activities/ Mini Tasks>learning Opportunities>Hands-on Engaging Activities

Learning Points>Performance Output>

Assimilation/Assessment
True or False: Write true if the statement is true and false if the statement is false. Write
your answer on the space provided before each number.
_________1. Many words of Joseph have been recorded in the Scriptures.
_________2. The hiddenness of Joseph encourages us to seek holiness of life through
the ordinary events of daily life.
_________3. Mary was pregnant because of Joseph.
_________4. Being a righteous man, Joseph wanted to expose Mary to public disgrace.
_________5. Mary was obviously taken aback when she received the news to be the
mother of God.
_________6. Jesus must have proudly looked up to Joseph who cherished and protected
him as his own son for some reasons.

Learning Delivery Outcome>New skills, knowledge, idea> habits of mind>Life skills

Reflection

I understand that ____________________________________________

I believe that _______________________________________________

REFERENCE
For additional information, refer to the following website:

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Teacher’s Resource Material

Aviles, A.F. and Diaz, J.M. (2016) Signs of the Times: “Jesus, God’s Beloved Son” pages
50-56

Textbook
Aviles, A.F. and Diaz, J.M. (2016) Signs of the Times: “Jesus, God’s Beloved Son” pages
100-113

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